AMFA Local 33 Will Move to Block Strikebreaker Buses from Leaving Hotels, in American Tradition of Civil Disobedience.4:00 p.m. Press Conference: As Labor Day Labor Day, holiday celebrated in the United States and Canada on the first Monday in September to honor the laborer. It was inaugurated by the Knights of Labor in 1882 and made a national holiday by the U.S. Congress in 1894. Nears, AMFA AMFA Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association AMFA Alternative Motor Fuels Act (PL 100-494) AMFA Asociación Movimiento Fe y Alegría (Association for Activities of Faith and Joy; Guatemala) Protests Northwest For names and places containing the slightly longer word 'northwestern' (or variants), see . Northwest or north west is the ordinal direction halfway between north and west on a compass. It is the opposite of southeast. Airline's Callous cal·lous adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a callus or callosity. callous of the nature of a callus; hard. Treatment of Employees
WHAT: Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA) Local 33
members and supporters will attempt to block buses carrying
imported scabs (strikebreakers) from leaving three area hotels
for Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. AMFA Local 33
will hold a press conference at one of the hotels to discuss
this action that is in the American tradition of civil
disobedience and to protest Northwest Airlines' callous
treatment of employees on the threshold of Labor Day weekend.
WHERE: At 3:00 p.m., buses carrying AMFA Local 33 members and
supporters depart for the following hotels: Holiday Inn
Minneapolis Metrodome, 1500 Washington Avenue South (Seven
Corners), Minneapolis; Radisson Hotel Metrodome, 615
Washington Avenue SE, Minneapolis; Four Points by Sheraton
Hotel, 1330 Industrial Boulevard NE, Minneapolis.
At 4:00 p.m., AMFA Local 33 will hold a press conference
outside the Holiday Inn Minneapolis Metrodome hotel.
WHEN: Thursday, September 1, 2005
WHO: The press conference will feature AMFA Local 33 President Ted
Ludwig and other speakers.
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